War

A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war.


See history for specific wars.
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The Shock of the Light
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The Girl with the List
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
I Hope You Find What You're Looking For
Nonesuch
The Riveter
Each and Every Spark
The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War
Buckeye
In the Likely Event
The Polymorph
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
Keeper of Lost Children
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Dawn of the North (The Ashen, #3)
The Half-Hearted Queen (The Shattered King #2)
The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)
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Family of Spies
Skylark
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A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5)
All the Broken Places
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Huế  1968 by Mark BowdenThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The Book Thief
Slaughterhouse-Five
All the Light We Cannot See
Catch-22
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Things They Carried
The Art of War
The Nightingale
Night
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
A Farewell to Arms
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Women
War and Peace

Markus Zusak
A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me. ...more
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Mark Twain
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain

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Collection of books mentioned on Radio War Nerd with Gary Brecher and Mark Ames. https://www.p…more
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The Forum Est Sep 2022. The forum is a space for men of colour to discuss, share and collaborate through …more
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The Ones That Could (Alternate WW2) An Alternate WW2 where a AC-130J Ghostrider crew is transported to an alternate 1950. They soon …more
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Anti-war Literature This group has been designed to discuss anti-war literature and debate on the realities of war.
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